Saurabh Singh (born 25 July 1974) is an Indian Politician and current

Member of Legislative Assembly A member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) is a representative elected by the voters of a constituency to a legislative assembly. Most often, the term refers to a subnational assembly such as that of a state, province, or territory of a country. S ...

for

Akaltara Akaltara is a nagar palika and tehsil in Janjgir-Champa district in the state of Chhattisgarh, India. It is the birthplace of a great freedom fighter Thakur Chhedi Lal (Barrister). Akaltara has a member in legislation assembly of Chhattisgar ...

. He is a member of

Bharatiya Janata Party The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; ; ) is a political party in India, and one of the two major Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. Since 2014, it has been the ruling political party in India under Narendra Modi ...

Political career

Singh first contested 2008 Assembly election from

Bahujan Samaj Party The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) is a national level political party in India that was formed to represent Bahujans (literally means "community in majority"), referring to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and Other Backward Classes (OBC), alon ...

's ticket and won. In July 2013, Saurabh left

. He joined

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Em ...

in 2013 and left in 2014. He joined

in 2014 and contested 2018 Assembly election on BJP ticket and was again elected as MLA by defeating Richa Jogi (daughter in law of former CM

Ajit Jogi Ajit Pramod Kumar Jogi (29 April 1946 29 May 2020) was an Indian politician, who served as the first chief minister of Chhattisgarh, India. He was a member of the political party named Janta Congress Chhattisgarh. Education Jogi studied Me ...

).https://ceochhattisgarh.nic.in/sites/default/files/AC2018-33.pdf

References

Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Chhattisgarh Chhattisgarh MLAs 2008–2013 1974 births Living people Chhattisgarh MLAs 2018–2023 {{Chhattisgarh-BJP-politician-stub